TPP-Week 2

Ok well I know it is the same day as the last post but this is this weeks postcard!! It will be interesting to chart the delivery time for these throughout the year! I decided this one is called Roar!!!!
Mailed April 6 Arrived-

The Postcard Project

Week 1
In case you don't know I have THE most adorable nephew in the world! His name is Thomas but unfortunately he lives in England and I live in Canada. I was there in March for a week visiting and had a brilliant time. He is very smart and can already say Hippopotamus and experimental which is pretty darned good for a 2 year old! Last week when I was talking to my Sis on Facebook (as you do!!) I decided I would make him a postcard and mail it to him! Of course from my perspective, once it is mailed it should be there the next day! However the mail between Canada and the UK is not that fast, and we are still waiting for it to arrive. In the meantime I decided that it would be fun to make one every week and that way he wont forget his Aunty Sharon!!

Of course my postcards are in fabric, although at some point he may get a watercolour one! So watch this space and lets see how I do on the one a week pledge! Theoretically it will keep me blogging!!!
Mailed March 29th arrived April 7

Happy New Year!!

Well Ok it is January 10th already but Happy New Year anyway! I was in a Secret Santa Exchange at Illustrated ATCs .com, and now that the recipients have received their pressies I can actually post the pics. Today's is an Embroidered Box i made for Annie( EraserQueen), she loves bright pink and purple together so I grabbed some bright pink silk and then dyed some purple for the lining! I think it turned out well, and although I was cursing my decision to make it a 5 sided box as I was sewing on the base I will definitely make more of these.

Stay tuned for Dana's Tree later this week!!

Two Postcards and Vacation!!

Phew, at long last I have some time off work!!! A week and a half to potter about do some day trips and play in my studio!! I have decided at long last to call this space my studio LOL. It started off as my sewing room, then as art crept in it became my sewing and art room, so I think it deserves to be a studio now. who cares what is created in here!!

I am in a couple of postcard trades at IllustratedATCs and ATCs for all, The Butterfly one is from a postcard ingredient trade! we send the ingredients to our partner and then they come up with the design and post it back, it is fun as you can get soem fun stuff to play with that maybe you donthave in your stash! I spotted the Kaffe Fasset fabrics straight away and new they would be the base!! The Purple one is needle felted silk fibres on a recyled sweater that I dyed in blues and greens. I get them from the thrift shop p use as a base in my felted work!

Long time no blog and a Rooster

Well I would never win any prizes for blogging that is for sure. Work has been very busy and I am slowly catching up with my art commitments! Slowly but surely!!! Here is a Roosted I felted for Carol (Monarch) at ATCsforall. We are trading felted pages and her theme was funky birds! I had just finished anothe trade page and that was a Peacock so birds were the theme of the moment it seems!

Ghosts of Autumn

Well as usual my design intentions took a left hand turn during the creation process!! I think this is why I don't plan things out too rigidly! In the end this page turned out better than my original idea !!! I never have any trouble with Autumn as a theme as I love the colours and it is my favourite season!!

Summer Journal Page

This page is for a four season swap I am in at ATCS4all. It was due last month but I was not happy with what I had so far so I started again!! To me Poppies are summer and so that is what I did. Of course I could not find the right colour silk for the flowrs so I ended up dyeing some in grades of pink and yellow. I think it came out quite well and am pleased with it although it is a very simple design. Sometimes I have to stop myself from adding other stuff when it doesn't need it LOL Beads yarns and additional stitching would detract from the effect I think!